| Date | 13 February 1976 — 14:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Kunsteisbahn, Messehalle, Innsbruck | |
| Referee | Gordon Kerr | CAN |
| Referee | Josef Kompalla | FRG |
| Attendance | 600 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | JPN | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Bulgaria | BUL | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Time | Score | Nat | Scorer (assists) | Situation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0:56 (1) | 1 – 0 | ![]() | Hideo Urabe (Minoru Ito) | Equal-handed | |
| 7:25 (1) | 2 – 0 | ![]() | Minoru Ito (Hideo Urabe, Hideo Sakurai) | Power play (1) | |
| 10:08 (1) | 3 – 0 | ![]() | Yasushio Tanaka (Yoshio Hoshino, Tsutomu Hanzawa) | Equal-handed | |
| 16:22 (1) | 3 – 1 | ![]() | Ivan Atanasov (Kiril Gerasimov) | Equal-handed | |
| 16:34 (1) | 3 – 2 | ![]() | Iliya Bachvarov (Kiril Gerasimov) | Equal-handed | |
| 18:17 (1) | 3 – 3 | ![]() | Ivaylo Kalev | Equal-handed | |
| 19:21 (1) | 4 – 3 | ![]() | Hideo Sakurai (Yasushio Tanaka, Iwao Nakayama) | Power play (1) | |
| 27:11 (2) | 4 – 4 | ![]() | Nikolay Mihaylov (Bozhidar Minchev) | Equal-handed | |
| 37:28 (2) | 5 – 4 | ![]() | Takeshi Azuma (Herb Wakabayashi) | Power play (1) | |
| 39:31 (2) | 6 – 4 | ![]() | Hideo Urabe (Hideo Sakurai) | Equal-handed | |
| 42:37 (3) | 6 – 5 | ![]() | Iliya Bachvarov (Milcho Nenov, Ivaylo Kalev) | Power play (1) | |
| 47:25 (3) | 7 – 5 | ![]() | Yasushio Tanaka | Equal-handed |
| Time | PIM | Nat | Player | Reason | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:04 (1) | 2 | ![]() | Hiroshi Hori | Hooking | |
| 11:28 (1) | 2 | ![]() | Nikolay Mihaylov | Slashing | |
| 13:49 (1) | 2 | ![]() | Yoshio Hoshino | Hooking | |
| 18:22 (1) | 2 | ![]() | Iliya Bachvarov | Interference | |
| 22:44 (2) | 2 | ![]() | Ivan Atanasov | Slashing | |
| 34:41 (2) | 2 | ![]() | Minoru Ito | Tripping | |
| 35:48 (2) | 2 | ![]() | Nikolay Mihaylov | Interference | |
| 41:32 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Hitoshi Nakamura | Delay of game | |
| 42:01 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Koji Wakasa | Charging | |
| 45:30 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Dimo Krastinov | Interference | |
| 48:37 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Ivan Atanasov | Cross-checking | |
| 55:14 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Ivan Markovski | Slashing | |
| 55:23 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Iliya Bachvarov | Interference | |
| 59:29 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Hiroshi Hori | Tripping | |
| 59:58 (3) | 2 | ![]() | Ivaylo Kalev | Interference |
| Time | Nat | Player | In/Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 (1) | ![]() | Minoru Misawa | Goalkeeper In |
| 0:00 (1) | ![]() | Petar Radev | Goalkeeper In |
| 42:37 (3) | ![]() | Toshimitsu Otsubo | Goalkeeper In |
| 42:37 (3) | ![]() | Minoru Misawa | Goalkeeper Out |
| 60:00 (3) | ![]() | Toshimitsu Otsubo | Goalkeeper Out |
| 60:00 (3) | ![]() | Petar Radev | Goalkeeper Out |
Japan| Pos | Nr | Player | Shift | Mins | Goals | Shots | Assists | +/- | PIM | Saves | Save % | GK In | GK Out | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | 6 | Hideo Urabe | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 7 | Yoshiaki Kyoya | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 8 | Minoru Ito | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| F | 10 | Takeshi Azuma | – | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 12 | Sadaki Honma | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 13 | Hideo Sakurai | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 16 | Tsutomu Hanzawa | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 18 | Herb Wakabayashi | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 21 | Yasushio Tanaka | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 23 | Yoshio Hoshino | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| D | 3 | Hiroshi Hori | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | – | |||||
| D | 4 | Iwao Nakayama | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 5 | Hitoshi Nakamura | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| D | 9 | Kiyoshi Esashika | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 11 | Takeshi Akiba | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 22 | Koji Wakasa | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| GK | 1 | Toshimitsu Otsubo | – | 17:23 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | 100.0% | 1 | ||||
| GK | 2 | Minoru Misawa | – | 42:37 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 22 | 81.5% | 2 | ||||
| Coach | Yoshihiro Miyazaki |
Bulgaria| Pos | Nr | Player | Shift | Mins | Goals | Shots | Assists | +/- | PIM | Saves | Save % | GK In | GK Out | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | 7 | Lyubomir Lyubomirov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 8 | Iliya Bachvarov | – | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | – | |||||
| F | 9 | Bozhidar Minchev | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 10 | Milcho Nenov | – | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 13 | Ivan Atanasov | – | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | – | |||||
| F | 14 | Kiril Gerasimov | – | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 16 | Marin Bachvarov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 18 | Malin Atanasov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| F | 19 | Nikolay Mihaylov | – | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 4 | – | – | |||||
| D | 2 | Ivan Markovski | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| D | 3 | Nikolay Petrov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 4 | Dimo Krastinov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| D | 5 | Dimitar Lazarov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 6 | Ivan Penelov | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 15 | Georgi Iliev | – | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | – | |||||
| D | 20 | Ivaylo Kalev | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | |||||
| GK | 1 | Petar Radev | – | 60:00 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 26 | 78.8% | |||||
| Coach | Pantelei Pantev |